Comment by Zigurd
17 hours ago
Overriding safety systems is itself a safety capability. But this wasn't a failure of the safety systems. It wasn't even a failure of the train drivers who had been over using safety system overrides. It was a management failure for not noticing that over use of overrides.
Also the train driver could have pushed back, in the radio recording with the dispatcher, he tells the driver to "proceed normally", the driver asks "proceed normally?" and the dispatcher confirms it. Here's were I would expect that better training or more availability of information to the driver would've made him push back on that decision.
I read that one of the other train did push back and told the dispatcher that they were supposed to proceed "at sight". Sad that this was not enough to rectify
please do not spread false information. the driver was repeating back everything, as it's usual in these scenarios
Look, that may be true, but why would the dispatcher then say "Yes, proceed normally"?, as if he'd been asked a question?